ARIEL SHARON

Israel's Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon (4th L) walks past Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat (2nd L) during the Middle East peace summit at the Wye River Conference centre October 21, 1998, in this handout picture released by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO). REUTERS/Avi Ohayon/GPO/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. ISRAEL OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN ISRAEL
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Israel Tried Really Hard To Assassinate Yasser Arafat, Considered Downing Passenger Plane
By Nick Visser
Some of the plots to kill the Palestinian Liberation Organization leader sound like action-movie scenes.
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A Belated Victory For Egypt's 'Golden General'
By Yehia Ghanem, Contributor
I have been journalist for the past 27 years. Former editor of...
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The Truth About Israel's National Security
By Alon Ben-Meir, Contributor
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Affairs, NYU
The Netanyahu government's linking of national security to the so-called "defensive borders" is disingenuous and misleading, designed to provide a cover for his and his cabinet's continued intoxication with seizing Palestinian territories.
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Is the Occupation Behind the Current Violence?
By Alon Ben-Meir, Contributor
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Affairs, NYU
The occupation is not sustainable; it is costly both in blood and treasure, Israel's national security will remain at risk, and the country will become ever more internationally isolated while risking its very identity as a Jewish state.
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Memories of Sand and Sea: Gush Katif Residents Mark 10 Years to Disengagement
By Anav Silverman, Contributor
International Correspondent in Jerusalem
On Tisha B'Av, Sunday, June 26, the former residents of Gush Katif are remembering -- in addition to the destruction of the Jewish Temples in Jerusalem -- the homes they were forced to leave behind 10 years ago in the southwestern edge of the Gaza Strip.
POLITICS
Netanhyu's Big Come-From-Behind Win Inflames Many Situations
By William Bradley, Contributor
Political Analyst
It carries big ramifications for American politics, the Middle East, and relations between the Islamic world and the West. Most everything will be more inflamed, not least the Iranian nuclear controversy and the future of Palestine. And of course American politics.
POLITICS
What's the Impact of Netanyahu's Brash Address to Congress?
By William Bradley, Contributor
Political Analyst
The incredible spectacle of Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu's speech to Congress -- in which he appeared as much as the leader of the political opposition to the Obama administration as the head of government of an allied nation -- has come and gone but will reverberate for a long time.
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The Fallacy of the Gaza Withdrawal
By Alon Ben-Meir, Contributor
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Affairs, NYU
Leave it to Netanyahu, however, to use the Gaza experience to justify the continuation of the occupation rather than working out airtight plans with the PA that would entail security measures to ensure that the West Bank does not become a staging ground for attacks on Israel.
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Will Netanyahu Seize The Moment?
By Alon Ben-Meir, Contributor
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Affairs, NYU
I disagree with those who suggest that Netanyahu will never change his stripes. Many deeply ideological leaders before him have unexpectedly risen to the occasion to answer the call from their people and the international community for a drastic change.
IMPACT
Shulamit Aloni -- I Cannot Imagine Israel Without Her Meretz
By Dr. Idit Harel, Contributor
Israeli-American Entrepreneur; CEO and Founder, GLOBALORIA
The word 'Meretz' means energy in Hebrew, and Aloni's unique energy mobilized change in Israel on all human dimensions since its founding more than half a century ago.
RELIGION
They Were Both Right: How Israeli Society Needed Both Sharon and Aloni
By Rabbi Edward Bernstein, Contributor
Rabbi, Temple Torah, Boynton Beach, FL, GreenFaith Fellow
The ongoing project of building a Jewish national homeland in the modern era owes a great debt both to Ariel Sharon and to Shulamit Aloni, and it can trace its roots all the way to this week's Torah portion.
POLITICS
Ariel Sharon: Stopping at Red Lights
By Reese Schonfeld, Contributor
Founding CEO of CNN
On January 14th, Tom Friedman, while commemorating the death of Ariel Sharon, cited "a Hebrew biography of him [Sharon] entitled "He Doesn't Stop at Red Lights."" I beg to differ
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Where Are the Leaders to Answer the Call?
By Alon Ben-Meir, Contributor
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Affairs, NYU
Neither Netanyahu nor Abbas has demonstrated bold and visionary leadership, which is surely needed at this fateful juncture. The Israeli-Palestinian annals are saturated with self-denial and resistance to the inevitable, and there is little evidence that much has changed.
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Palestinians and Sharon
By Daoud Kuttab, Contributor
Palestinian journalist
For some reason the passing of Ariel Sharon after the withdrawal from Gaza and the long years in a coma have taken away some of the bitterness that many felt about Ariel Sharon.
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Rockets Fired Near Sharon's Burial Place
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Sharon's Legacy
By Alon Ben-Meir, Contributor
Senior Fellow, Center for Global Affairs, NYU
For me, Ariel Sharon was a leader's leader who demonstrated the vision, courage and commitment to what he believed in -- qualities that are sorely lacking on the global stage today and especially in the Middle East.
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The Gospel According to Arik
By Terence Smith, Contributor
Journalist
His death brings the Sharon legacy back into the forefront of the Israeli national consciousness and confronts the current Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, with an awkward dilemma.
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Why Israel Will Miss Ariel Sharon
By Abraham H. Foxman, Contributor
National Director, Anti-Defamation League
Sharon moved from being a warrior to becoming a statesman. In both capacities, Sharon was thinking and acting on behalf of his beloved Israel. Sometimes this meant strength and toughness. Other times it meant creative non-military decision-making.
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Remembering Sharon: Israelis and World Leaders Pay Tribute
By Anav Silverman, Contributor
International Correspondent in Jerusalem
On Sunday, thousands gathered to pay their last respects to Israel's eleventh prime minister and brilliant military strategist, Ariel Sharon, who passed away on Saturday after spending the last eight years of his life in a coma following a stroke in 2006.
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Obama Reacts To Death Of Ariel Sharon
By Chris Gentilviso
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21 Political Figures You Thought Were Dead -- But Aren't
By Shadee Ashtari
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My Surprisingly Inspiring Trip to the West Bank: Echoes of Our Civil Rights Movement
By Jeff Cohen, Contributor
Author and media critic
Like King, leaders of the Palestinian popular resistance -- from intellectuals to grassroots villagers who'd been repeatedly jailed -- spoke to us about universal human rights, about a human family in which all deserve equal rights regardless of religion or nationality.
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Middle East: The Perpetual War and The Peace Mirage
By Rizwan A. Rahmani, Contributor
Small business owner
Anyone who thinks that there is a possibility of peace between Israelis and Palestinians is either delusional or just hasn't been paying close attention to that part of world for the last 65 years.
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When Enemies Make a Common World: Hamas, Netanyahu and the Israel-Gaza War
By Roger Friedland, Contributor
Visiting Professor, Media, Culture and Communication, NYU
Israel has the right to defend its citizens against a continuous rain of missiles. But there is no purely military solution to this conflict. There is only a political one, which will require a strong, prosperous, democratic Palestinian state in the West Bank as a counter to the Gaza of Hamas.
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Son Of Former Israeli PM: 'We Need To Flatten Entire Neighborhoods In Gaza'
By Adam Goldberg
POLITICS
Campaign 2012: Playing the Israel Card
By Bob Burnett, Contributor
Berkeley writer, retired Silicon Valley executive
A dangerous situation has developed and it's surprising that it hasn't gotten more notice. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to influence the 2012 presidential election by garnering votes for his friend, Mitt Romney.
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